IIT BEGIN WORK

Obama-Singh knowledge initiative: IITs begin work

Mumbai: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and central universities will shortly begin work on sending an association of post doctoral students and faculty members to the US universities for training from the next academic session.

The training which is part of the Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative, will have around 100 faculty members to be trained initially. The numbers would be scaled up to 1000 later.

"Ministry of Human Resource Development will spend around Rs 130 crore on the entire initiative. We would be spending around Rs 13 lakh on each faculty member. The universities where training would take place, however, would be decided by each individual university and IITs," said a senior MHRD official University of Delhi (DU) Vice Chancellor, Dinesh Singh, told Business Standard that DU would certainly take advantage of this initiative and begin work as per MHRD's direction.